The UAE denies interfering in the Israeli political debate regarding the pre-October 7 warnings

Maariv explained, citing sources, that “the UAE refuses to be drawn into these publications or to become a party in the Israeli internal political debate.”

The sources added, "The UAE does not consider it one of its duties to provide responses or denials to every press report published in Israel, stressing a clear message that Abu Dhabi does not interfere in election campaigns or internal Israeli political battles, and will not turn into a public relations office for the Israeli government."

This clarification comes in the wake of a report published by the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz", in which it was stated that "Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed warned Netanyahu of a major step planned by Hamas and its leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, against Israel before the date set for the October 7 attack."

On the other hand, the Israeli Prime Minister denied this report, as Counselor Topaz Luke confirmed that communications between leaders of countries do not take place in isolation from official agencies, explaining that the National Security Advisor, the Prime Minister’s Military Secretary, or a political advisor is usually present in such talks, and their content is documented and their summaries are transferred to the relevant authorities in the security establishment.

In the context of the Israeli media controversy, political commentator Ben Caspit raised that “Abu Dhabi’s lack of initiative to deny the report strengthens its credibility” in his view, noting that “former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who is close to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, hinted at the validity of this information.”

Caspit linked this report to previous warnings published about Egyptian intelligence information that arrived before the attack, considering that the accumulation of these reports reinforces the hypothesis of the existence of regional warnings that were not taken seriously enough. According to him, “The campaign: Why didn’t they warn him? Now turns into a question: Why didn’t he warn us?”

Discussions are currently raging about whether there were intelligence or political failures in dealing with advance warnings, with increasing calls to reveal the full facts about the information that reached the Israeli political and security level in the period preceding the attack.

Through this firm position, the UAE affirms its established principles of non-interference in the internal affairs of countries, and maintaining its regional relations within the framework of common interests and mutual respect, and also confirms its support for the rights of the Palestinian people.